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WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1923 17 AOR rs 020. 0'9 J 1 ee y ly: WE ding Lamp A 1 HAY Gre PIRES ABOUT BOOKS AND THE PEOPLE WHO WRITE THEM Anather Novel of the Middle West "WEST OF THE "WATER TOWER" Anonymous Reviewed by Jennie Betts Hartswick Against the background of a typical Middle Western village the anonymous author of "West of the Water Tower" has sketched a group of living charac- ters. The Reverend Adrian Plummer his son, Guy, Charles G. Grew--a lawyer and infidel--and his daughter Beatrice are the four outstanding figures whose loves and hates make up the action of the tale. Guy Plummer and Beatrice Chew, fellow-graduates of the Junction City High School, step down from the commencement platform and begin at once the fulfillment of their mani- fest destiny. Socially widely separated, tempera- mentally at variance, they, nevertheless, advance precipitately toward the inevit- able catastrophe whose consequences are the essential theme of the story. Faced with exposure, Guy confesses his predicament to his parents, and his father, lashed by a conscience convicting him of a similar experience of his cwn youth and impelled by fanatic impluse, calls his flock together and in a power- ful scene depicted with stark dramatic realism, reveals the story of his own trangression, accepts the sin of his son as its just punishment, and resigns his charge. From this point the reader's interest in the rehabilitation of the weak, un- stable Guy and his ultimate reconcili- ation with Beatrice are subordinated to the sympathy aroused by the picture of the self-deposed minister. The temporary collapse of his religious faith and his pathetic struggle with increasing poverty are vividly portrayed with the sure touch of a master hand. Here and there throughout the book, the reader, spurred by the author's tan- talizing anonymity, finds suggestions of the work of Willa Cather, Sinclair Lew- is, and at times rather convincingly of John T. Frederick in his recent novel "Druida." Thumb-Nail Literary Essays "BOOKS AND AUTHORS" By Robert Lynd This is a series of brief, genial, gos- sipy essays on men of letters by the lit- erary critic of the London "Daily News." The spirit in which he writes is apparent from this extract. "The critic has duties as a destroyer, but chiefly in the same sense as a gold- washer. His aim is the discovery of gold." Discussing writers "more or less an- cient," Mr. Lynd finds that Hugo's work is a '"gigantically grotesque pile;" that Moliere "has written the smiling poetry of our sins;" that Keats enriches life "with a sense of loveliness forever van- ishing ;" that Lamb "is at once the most restful and the most playful of essay- ists ;" that Byron is an "audacious wit" that the path of Shelley's poems is as "indeterminate as the path of the lark fluttering in the air;" that Plutarch is supreme among biographers; that Poe and Witman are "the two great poets of America ;" and that Hawthorne "is the first prose myth-maker of America." Turning next to writers "more or less modern," Mr. Lynd gives it as his opin- ion that Max Beerbohm's work "has the perfection of a starched shirt-front;" that Arnold Bennett's style is "perky, efficient, deceisive;" that Wells is "one of the few writers who have given mo- mentum to the idea of the world as one place;" that Vachel Lindsay is "essen- tially the poet of a worked-up audience ;" that A. M. Tomlinson has "the three great gifts of imagry, style and humor :" that Tchehov's creed was the opposite of a creed of despair;" that Nietzsche will "probably survive as an artist rather than as a teacher;" and that T. S. Eliot, in the role of a critic, is sadly mistaken in rating "Hamlet" as an artistic fail- ure. H. Beach Carpenter. Meet Mr. Pinney, Boys! "POOR PINNEY" By Marian Chap- man : If the father who figures in "Miss Lulu Bett," Babbit, and Mr. Pinney all met together on one page, the combin- ation would be insufferable. Given them one at a time, we can enjoy the merci- less way in which the spotlight is turned upon their prosaic failings. Pinney is an excellent combination of the notorious type of traveling salesman, the jocose butcher, the small-town bluf- fer, and Sir Walter Raleigh. He is well drawn from the diamond scarf pin to the moustache cup marked "Season's Greet- ings." The fat and satisfactorily unwell Mrs. Pinney, daughter Addie, and Eddie --a somewhat diluted Penrod--make up an unforgettable family. Small town interests, petty rivalries, and redeeming features are nowhere more humorously pictured. Mr. Pinney's "Caw, caw, caw" echoes long after the story is read, in our own more refined expressions of enjoyment. Olga Owens. Copyright 1923, Howard H. Seward OU can start your tour in your own car a thousand miles from Chicago, on the second day of your vacation, full of pep--your car in prime condition. Drive your car to our Chicago terminal, then--forget it! 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